vCenter Discovery - Get custom attributes in vSphere

gustavo_and
Tera Contributor

‎03-05-2025 09:14 AM

Hi,

Our organization is looking to bring all VMs that are managed in vSphere into our CMDB. For data consistency we have created custom attributes in vSphere to normalize the information no matter what kind of VM we are looking at. We would like to bring said attributes in the CMDB.

 

Now the question is how do i bring the attributes from vCenter/vSphere. I've looked through ServiceNow Documentation about Discovery/probes/patterns.

 

Now it seems that vCenter Discovery is particular on it's on way,  so it is very unclear if bringing custom attributes is actually faisable and if so how do you configure to get the end result?

 

Appreciate any input!

 

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johnwilliam8649
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Thursday

VMware 'tags'  (Custom attributes/annotations) are discovered OOB by the vcenter pattern. They end up in cmdb_key_value
In my experience, only tags for VMs are collected. Attributes for our ESXi servers are not, unless it is a bug.

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